Monday, March 2, 2015

So Reed and I were off to tour VA today. First stop was a town 20 miles south called Staunton. We got to the Visitor's Center just as a lady was taking out a tour out so we jumped on. Kinda slow but it was ok and we saw the sites. After we went to the town's main tourist site Woodrow Wilson's birth home and museum. That was OK and the tour of his father's house was cool. Wilson's father was a Presbyterian minister and an interesting guy in his own rite who made big money as a minister. Very nice looking guy. Even today he'd turn heads. After hit lunch and then on to Charlottesville and Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello. Reed enjoyed it and it was cool for me as Jefferson's library collection was the basis of today's Library of Congress. Biggest surprise was that Jefferson owed money his whole life and died with debts of today's equivalent of $2 million+. Reed took a bunch of pics. These are the 3 he wanted me to put up. The monument is TJ's grave.

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